Gallery: Tested: Wireless presentation tools

The IN3916 is a projector and a mouse-pointer-controlling wand. The projector is superb -- bright and sharp with a short throw, so you can project a 1.5-metre-wide image from 80cm away. You need to point the wand straight at the projector’s image for it to work. It’s accurate if laggy: it was easy to point out items, but hard to draw on screen. WIRED: Superb projector TIRED: Laggy operation 7/10£1,320 infocus.com

Kensington Wireless Presenter with Laser Pointer and 1GB

This pointer is simple, but the experts liked the lack of fussiness. There are buttons to move slides forward and back, another to hide and show the presentation, and a laser pointer, which one expert thought was “weedy”, doubting it would be seen from the back of a room. WIRED: Easy to use; ergonomic TIRED: Dim laser 6/10£59 kensington.com

Interlink Electronics Remotepoint Jade

The Jade is more advanced than it looks and also has the brightest laser. You can program its four buttons with any key combination to control programs, and assign profiles to use with different applications. There’s also a joystick to control the mouse pointer, but our expert found this oversensitive.WIRED: Wireless program switching TIRED: Tricky pointer movement 7/10$199 (£130) smklink.com

Logitech Professional Presenter R800

The shape drew raised eyebrows from our testers, and it’s not as comfortable to hold as some. Otherwise, it’s a brilliant design. The LCD has signal and battery meters, and there’s a countdown, which you can set to vibrate before the end of your presentation, telling you to wrap things up. WIRED: Presentation timerTIRED: Strange shape 8/10£70 logitech.com

Microsoft Wireless Presenter Mouse 8000

The 8000 is a laptop mouse with presentation controls on its underside. We had trouble pairing it with our laptop over Bluetooth -- we’d have preferred an RF dongle. There are slide forward and back buttons as well as a volume control, but our testers found the buttons far too stiff to be comfortable to use. WIRED: Two in oneTIRED: Tricky setup; stiff buttons 6/10£40 microsoft.com